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Show ni.ui:i vam).ii.s. We learn from a Han Franclico Chronica dlapatch that Kngllah eparrowt havodlarigureil many of the pavilion! and exhibit In the Manu-faciureri' Manu-faciureri' building at Chicago. Every-where Every-where Ihe little peat have roadn their mark until the placo looka a If a heavy anowatorm bad Juttfallcu. Tho nuisance has become ao annoying that exhibitor have appealed to the World' I'alr authorities for relief, and the officials have held aoveral conferences, con-ferences, but thu far without deciding upon a measuro that promises to remedy tho evil. C'ouutless thousands of sparrow bavo Lullt their neat In the huge taller tall-er a hundred feet above the heidt of tho visitors. Captain lloufleld, chief of the secret service at Jackson 1'ark, conceived the startling Idea of Inoculating chippy bird with chicken cholera, and hi plau would have been adopted had not an eminent emi-nent modioli authority warned him that thu body of one sparrow distroyed In this way might spread the chicken cholera until all tho bent In Illinois would bo carried oil by the plague. Half theblgbeidaat thu fair are trying try-ing to devlto a meant by which the sparrows inuy saloly bo exterminated; but as all who havu bad experlenco with them can testily, this I easier said than douu. In no place, perhaps, are the pests more pestiferous than hero In Halt Like, but they decline to either go or thin out. |
